Professor Leon Danon
MSci, MSc, PhD
Current positions
Professor of Infectious Disease Modelling and Data Analytics
School of Engineering Mathematics and TechnologyDirector of the Jean Golding Institute
Jean Golding Institute
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
8032: Covid-19 Modelling Consortium JUNIPER
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
18/01/2021 to 18/05/2022
8032 COVID-19: Spatial heterogeneity in transmission and the impact of interventions: a mathematical modelling approach
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
18/01/2021 to 30/09/2021
8463 Covid-19 Modelling Consortium JUNIPER
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Engineering Mathematics and TechnologyDates
18/01/2021 to 31/03/2023
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Selected publications
29/01/2025Mechanistic models of humoral kinetics following COVID-19 vaccination
Journal of the Royal Society Interface
Winter 2022–23 influenza vaccine effectiveness against influenza-related hospitalised aLRTD: A test-negative, case-control study
Vaccines
Risk of mortality in patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern 202012/1
BMJ
Relative vaccine effectiveness of mRNA COVID-19 boosters in people aged at least 75 years during the spring-summer (monovalent vaccine) and autumn-winter (bivalent vaccine) booster campaigns
Eurosurveillance
Recent publications
17/03/2025Incidence of community acquired lower respiratory tract disease in Bristol, UK following the emergence of SARS-CoV-2: a prospective cohort study 2020-2024
Emergency department presentations of community-acquired lower respiratory tract disease in Bristol, UK: a prospective cohort study 2022–2023
BMJ Open Respiratory Research
Improving the accuracy of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) incidence estimates among hospitalised adults in Bristol, UK
BMC Infectious Diseases
Mechanistic models of humoral kinetics following COVID-19 vaccination
Journal of the Royal Society Interface
The potential and challenges of AI for collective intelligence
Collective Intelligence
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